Attributed To Hortense Haudebourt-lescot (1784-1845) Portrait Of A Young Girl

Attributed to Hortense HAUDEBOURT-LESCOT (1784-1845) Portrait of a young girlOil on canvas Dimensions: H. 46 cm - W. 28 cm HVSBibliography: Hortense Haudebourt-Lescot was a student of Guillaume Guillon-Lethière (1760-1832), when he was director of the Académie de France in Rome and a member of the Academia di San Luca. She made her debut at the Salon in 1810. Married to the architect Pierre Haudebourt (1788-1849) in 1820, she was active in Rome and Paris. She is primarily known for having been the official painter of Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Siciles (1798-1870), Duchess of Berry. Two works by this artist are present in the book by Féréol Bonnemaison, painter and curator of the Duchess's painting gallery, Galerie de son altesse royale Madame la duchesse de Berry, published in 1822, which underline the influence of her stay in Italy and the taste of the time for the picturesque life of the ordinary Neapolitan people. It is the same taste that we find in the figure of Young Peasant Woman in Prayer in the Cherbourg Museum or in The Reading Lesson in the Museum of Fine Arts in Angers. She exhibited at the Salon of French Artists in 1814 "Confirmation by a Greek Bishop in the Basilica of Saint Agnes Outside the Walls in Rome", today preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts in Rouen. In 1837, Louis-Philippe (1773-1850) commissioned him, for the historical museum of Versailles, François de Lorraine, Duke of Guise, receiving the surrender of the Spanish troops after the capture of Thionville, June 23, 1558 (Versailles, National Museum of the Palaces of Versailles and Trianon) and in 1838, Pope Eugene III receives the ambassadors of the King of Jerusalem in 1145 (Versailles, National Museum of the Palaces of Versailles and Trianon). Many museums (Château-Thierry, Compiègne, Toulouse, Dijon, Bordeaux) have works that testify to the variety of his production (history painting, genre scenes, portraits). The Louvre Museum holds four paintings and a set of twelve drawings, purchased by the museum in 1925. (Virginie Desrante, website of the Ministry of Culture)